The Long Hello: The Other Side of Alzheimer's

Date:    Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Time:    7 pm
Where:  Community Room
Audience:  Adults

The Long Hello: The Other Side of Alzheimer's
by Cathie Borrie, RN, BSN, MPH, LLB

This presentation illustrates how creative writing led a daughter into an unconventional dance with her elderly mother, who had
Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, transforming a seemingly despairing experience of loss and grief, into one which revealed a
meaning and beauty not often highlighted in the literature and experience of dementia.

The mother's recorded voice weaves throughout the narrative with insight, humour, and astonishing poetic sensibility,
challenging limiting, negative and pervasive stereotypes. It is through her voice, against a background of suffering and despair
that new and beautiful insights into the poetic and eccentric realities of dementia emerge.

This tender and moving elegy embraces these changes in a long "hello", and serves as proof that love, loyalty and listening,
provides a canvas for the magical and limitless potential of a changing mind.

Free admission.  Seating is limited.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

For more on Cathie Borrie please visit her website: www.cathieborrie.com

This event is co-sponsored by the Whistler Public Library and Armchair Books.